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Sen. Tom Bakk, I-Cook, led the Minnesota Senate's bonding committee into Duluth on Thursday, intent to hear more about the $5 billion worth of projects in need of state money. ....
Minnesota Sens. Tom Bakk of Cook and David Tomassoni of Chisholm surprised many last year by leaving the DFL party after winning 2020 elections as Democrats. ....
More than three years after it was devastated by a series of storms, the new boardwalk will open and people will again have access to the Lake Superior shoreline. ....
5 hours ago For seven years, Indigenous communities and environmental groups in Minnesota have fought to stop Canadian oil company Enbridge from building an oil pipeline called Line 3. This pipeline, proposed in 2014, would replace a much older pipeline by the same name, which was built in the 1960s, and has been disastrous for the environment in Minnesota. In 1991, the original Line 3 ruptured, spilling 1.7 million gallons of oil onto the frozen Prairie River in what is to date the largest inland oil spill in United States history; clean-up crews had to use hoses to suck the spilled oil off of the ice and into tanker trucks, preventing it from reaching the Mississippi River, only two miles away. ....
From the editorial: This one . feels a bit like an every-kid-gets-one participation trophy. Written By: News Tribune Editorial Board | 2:00 pm, May 18, 2021 × On Monday, Gov. Tim Walz stood with legislative leaders from both chambers and from both parties and proudly declared that they had reached a bipartisan compromise on a $52 billion state budget framework. Yes, framework. Not the actual budget yet. Just spending targets. Something the governor and lawmakers should have gotten done long before the legislative session’s final day. If they had, final details could have been worked out, bills written, and other legislation taken care of all on time. And maybe not in secret. ....